John,

The Senate just passed a shameless and unprecedented shift of the nation’s wealth from the poor to the rich. The Senate bill includes over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and will leave nearly 17 million without health coverage—even more than the House. Like the House, it piles on gift after gift to the rich and well-connected, from Space-X to the oil and gas industries to multi-millionaire estates. This afternoon, the House Rules Committee is meeting to set up a House vote tomorrow, with a goal of sending it to Donald Trump’s desk by July 4th.

Time is running out, but there’s still time to kill this bill.

Send a message to your Representative, urging them to reject this bill outright.

In May, the House version passed by a single vote. And the Senate version is much worse. It includes harsher cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, removes exemptions from SNAP’s harsh time limits for 270,000 veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and former foster youth,¹ while increasing the national debt by $4.5 trillion.²

Under the Senate version, a worker earning $30,000 would receive a tax cut of just $108, while a multi-millionaire in the top 0.1% would receive a $255,155 tax cut.³

And this doesn’t include how the suffering and costs associated with cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and Trump’s tariffs would affect low-to-middle-income people.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) issued a statement:⁴

“This bill will give the ultra-wealthy annual tax breaks of hundreds of thousands of dollars, but low-income families will be lucky to get enough to cover groceries for a week. The reality is, this Republican plan will drive the vulnerable into misery and drag down the middle class for the benefit of big corporations and the rich. It’s getting worse with every rewrite.”

This bill would cut SNAP and Medicaid by well over $1 trillion, lead to 17 million people getting kicked off their health care and millions more losing nutrition benefits, and result in the closure of hundreds of rural hospitals. Estimates based on the House bill found that 51,000 people will die preventable deaths each year; the Senate’s deeper cuts would be expected to push those shameful numbers even higher.⁵

How many deaths are acceptable in order to provide more tax breaks to the wealthy?

Send a direct message to the House today, urging them to reject the Big Brutal Bill.

Thank you for all you do,

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, CHN Action

[1] Senate Ag, Nutrition, & Forestry Committee Dems
[2] Senate Would Borrow Far More than House
[3]'Unprecedented Handout': Senate GOP Tax Bill Even More Regressive Than House Version
[4]The Senate Republican Tax Plan: Officially Worse than the House Republican Tax Plan
[5]Projected Mortality Impacts of the Budget Reconciliation Bill